Augustin Alexandre Darthe

Augustin Alexandre Darthe (1769-27 May 1797) was a French socialist who, alongside Francois-Noel Babeuf, was executed by the French First Republic in 1797 for plotting to overthrow the French Directory during the French Revolution.

Biography
Augustin Alexandre Darthe was born in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, France in 1769, and he became administrator of the Pas-de-Calais department after the outbreak of the French Revolution. Darthe also became a public agitator due to his support for Maximilien Robespierre, and he managed to escape the death penalty during the Thermidorian Reaction of 1794. Instead, he befriended Francois-Noel Babeuf, and the two of them plotted to overthrow the French Directory and establish an egalitarian society. In 1796, the two men and 600 Jacobin Club supporters failed to convince the soldiers at Grenelle to join their uprising, and the two coup plotters were guillotined at Vendome on 27 May 1797.